Size Matters
You call that converted broom closet full of food your pantry
because you are too embarrassed to call it your food storage. Don't
worry, your secret is safe with us.
You've got your pantry stocked for a rainy day and you are
feeling pretty confident (cocky) as you watch the approaching storm.
Yes indeed, you are ready for almost anything...or are you? How much
food do you have put aside? Enough for a month? Three months? One
year? You run to your pantry and take a cursory glance. Yep,
you can probably feed yourself and your family
for...oh...about...about...a long time. Yeah, right. You'll be fine.
Let's be honest, shall we? A one month supply of food isn't all
that much when you think about it. one month goes by quickly, doesn't
it? You can probably cut back on your portions and make the food in
your pantry go farther.
Reality Check: A one month supply of food is not good for
much. To prepare for a local disaster, you need a few days worth of
food and water, just enough to hold you over until help arrives or
until you relocate. An extended catastrophe might last a week or two
at the most so you'll need enough to hold you over until help arrives
or until you relocate. See how that works?
A crisis that is greater than a local, natural disaster like
a hurricane or earthquake, etc., is another thing altogether, but you
have to define what a crisis might mean to you. What kind of crisis
are you prepared for? Do you think you might need to rely on your food
supply for an extended period of time? What does extended mean?
Extended is obviously more than a month. One month is nothing more
than a healthy supply for a temporary local disaster, not an extended
amount of time. Three months supply is more than enough for a
catastrophe, but is three months really an extended period of time?
An extended period of time to a small child is different that an adult who went through the depression.
Posted by admin Tuesday, November 11, 2008 (04:42:35)
Critical Investment Recommendations
Long before the press woke up and sounded the alarm, I told you to
invest in water. Some people took me seriously. Most didn’t. I also
told you to invest in food. I told you to take all of the money you
have and purchase food. Some people did. Most didn’t. I have heard
and am encouraged that some people are just now jumping on the
bandwagon. Better late than never. Imagine how much money they would
have saved had they started earlier, like you did.
Time has obviously proven my reliability in these matters.
Now that the readers of my sites are actively investing in food and
water purification, I am going to make two more recommendations. Don’t
ignore them.
Posted by admin Sunday, September 14, 2008 (03:51:33)
Mathematics of Your Emergency Water Supply
Uneducated and unmotivated individuals often believe that they can
draw drinking water from their home's plumbing in an emergency. Simple
mathematics reveals the folly of this plan.
Let's calculate the volume of water in your home's plumbing.
The plumbing in your home is 3/4" diameter.
Radius of pipe (r) = 3/8 of one inch = 0.375in
Area of a cylinder (pipe) = π x r2
pi = 3.14159265
3.14159265 times 0.3752 equals 0.44178646
Volume of a cylinder (pipe) = area x length
One gallon of water equals 231 cubic inches
Our plumbing contains 0.44178646 cubic inches per running inch
Let's put in our numbers.
231 / 0.44178646 = 522.87704788417463043118161656652
Let's round this off to 522.88 inches.
Divide this by 12 and we see that we need 43.57 feet of plumbing for every gallon of water.
You need a minimum of one gallon of water per person per day. Three
days supply for two people would require 261.42 feet of plumbing, which
I sincerely doubt that you have in your home.
Posted by admin Sunday, July 13, 2008 (00:27:15)